WARNING -- "Sherman Alexie Christmas Card"

OK -- I don't normally post virus warnings, but Molly and I just received an e-mail in our submission queue with an attached MS Word file with the subject "a christmas card from sherman alexie to molly & reb" from a hotmail account -- perhaps this is just an aimed attack at us by a spurned pool boy, but in case this person is "targeting" other poetry editors . . . whatever you do, don't open the Word document -- it's full of child porn (and possibly a virus). No I didn't open it, I sent it to my network security husband to check it out.

See, this is why we don't accept attached files from people who don't clear it with us beforehand. And luckily since this kind of thing is one of Chris' fields of speciality, it's already been reported and is being investigated.

Sorry Virginia, Sherman Alexie did not really send you a Christmas card.